The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-05
COMMENT AND OPINION.

If the struggle between Conkling and Blaine in
to be actively renewed, thoughtful Republicans
may be pardoned IL they take 10 the woods.
-PIttsburg Dispatch.
THE Anti-Poverty Society is the true means
of solving the problems of existence Every
man, however, should be his own anti-poverty
soclety.-Boston Transcript.
Has anybody seen or heard anything of the
Hon. Joseph E. Mcdonald lately He and his
friends are ominously SILENT and IS Is only
year away.-Detroit Tribune.
SPEAKER CARLISLE has been having a good
time out in Kansas but he found free trade
boom there. The atmosphere in that latitude is
intensely American.--Philadelphia Press.
HIS (Mr. Cleveand'sl pet grievance seems to
be that the party at large does not size him
by the same measure used by the courtiers, who
have fiattered him to their own uses.-Macon
Telegraph Dem.
THE impression given by the recent news
from Washington is that President Cleveland
has passed most of his time since his Inaugural
tion in explaining his views the second term
question to Senator NeSt.-St. Louis Iost-Dis-
patch.
FATHER McGLYNN wants to see pope with a
stove pipe hat. The good father if he should
bring this about, might go further. and insist
that his Holiness should appear in large trousers
with prominent strlpes.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
THE people of the United States cannot afford
to receive the oppressed of other lands unless
they shall come with sound bodies and clear
brains, able and willing to support themselves
by honest labor without falling below the plano
OF the native workman and intending to become
citizens, to obey our laws. and to support the
institutions ard principles of our government
New York Times
North, South. East and West the press is iu-
biiant over Mr. Cleveland's letter to Secretary
Lamar defending the rights of bona fide settlers
the public land against the encroachments of
the Pacific railroad corporations. All extol the
Presidents manly espousal of the cause of fair
play for the pioneer farmer-al except the or
gans of the "spoilsmen.n They alone are dumb
But what splendid tribute to him their silence
is.-Brooklyn Eagle.
ALONG with State railroads and State bake
ries, shall have the State newspaper,
and of course it will never give expression to
the groans of the oppressed for fear of offending
the State officials Everybody will be whipped
into line. and all kept at the same level How
does that outlook strike youa To us it seems
dismal monotonous, repusive, and far
horrible than any tyranny of which we have
any record in history.-New York Sun.
IF all the ills which flesh is heir to could be
abolished by Henry Georges organization, then
might the coming of the millennium be fastened,
and the adjustment of poverty be considered a
probability. But bodily pain, mental suffering
and death are the common lot of mortals. Even
wealth does not insure against them. And
poverty, like these, is part of the order OF the
universe. 1.-THE poor" says Christ himself we
have always with you.7-Chareston News and
Courier.
THE trouble with the prohibition sentiment in
Michigan, as in other States, is that even when
it prevails it does not prohibit If is ever
banished from Detroit it will not be by constitu-
tional amendment and legal enactment The
sentiment that rules in individual lives and
tributes to sef-control-the preaching that per-
suades every man to be his own prohibitionist-
these are the influences that purify communities
from the curse of strong drink. The Ohio law
is far better than prohibition. Com
mercal Gazette.
So Mr.. Powderly is again impelled to rise and
loudly declare that he is tired" and needs and
proposes to take u rest" This is world of
conversations. The is uncomfortably
backward May needs ar overcoat, but will try
promise TO take rest" He may be tirnd
tainly he ought to be. but he is not half
weary as afflicted public. upon whose atten-
ton he has thrust himself with such monoto-
nous persistency for the past two years.-Phila-
delphia Evening Telegraph.
WHILE there is a great deal of rot in the de-
nunciatlons of the rich, which have become
common of late, the rich man corporation that
seeks to evade the payment of taxes legally due
is open to good deal of denunciaton that would
be entirely just. Rich men and rich corpora
should not seek to evade their share of the bur-
dens of government Officials who assess the
property of those of moderate means at its taxa
bic value, and neglect to assess that OF CORPORA
tions or wealthy people by the same standard.
derelict in their duty and should step down
and out-Phiadelphia Times.
THE interstatecommerce act distinctly de-
clares that nothing in it shall be construed
to forbid thesissue of mileage. communication or
excursion tickets Special rates might be
granted TO amusement companies under one OF
these heads without violation OF the law. But il
. railroad company should give excursion
rate to travelling amusement organization
and refuse it to others. that would be such .'un-
just discrimination" the law forbids.. The
railroad companies understand this matter, and
do not require any instruction from the Inter-
state commerce Commission in regard to it. But
they are making a strained and unreasonable
application of the law in this and in other
spects in order to bring it into reproach and thus
secure its repeaL-Phiadelphia Record
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